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Fancy creating your own Florentine masterpiece? You might not manage Michelangelo’s David, but the Hotel Savoy, on the main Piazza della  Repubblica, in Florence, has introduced sculpting corses, working with clay. Guests will be tutored at the Galleria Romanelli, in the San Frediano district, a 250-year-old sculpture studio that has been in the same family for five generations. Exsus (020 7337 9010, exsus.com) has two nights from £988pp, B&B, including flights, transfers and two half-days of sculpture lessons.